ceiving the poetry of Mr. Mellen on the terms he expects--we cannot
afford it--and I think this was understood by us all when I saw you last.
He can probably make a better bargain elsewhere. --Nor should I think
the piece itself worthy of insertion unless altered.
1

I send you also a review of the "Young Rifleman."2 I shall have Mr.
Renwick Review of Strickland this week, on Friday at latest--a
notice of Alexanders Canon by Mr. [William] Ware and a Review of some
work on Banking by Wm. Coleman jr. who is a great Political Economist
with us.

I am Sir
yrs in haste--W C BRYANT

If you have not the Young Rifleman let me know it & I will send you the
book or the leaves from it, containing the extracts--

Grenville Mellen ( 1799-1841, Harvard 1818) had contributed verse to the USLG, and in noticing his prize poem, The Rest of the Nations ( Portland, 1826), Bryant had commented, "It may be very old fashioned in us to recommend the free use of
the file to this writer, but it is only recommending the example of the greatest poets,
both ancient and modern." USLG, 4 ( September 1826), 461-462. Mellen wrote an indignant protest to Bryant (n.d., NYPL-BG), and asked more money of Folsom for his
verses. Reporting his request to Bryant, Folsom remarked, "I think he is not a valuable contributor, & is likely to be a troublesome one." October 30, 1826, NYPL-BG.

Bryant's notice of The Adventures of a Young Rifleman (Philadelphia, 1826),
appeared in USR, 1 (December 1826), 178-190.

158. To Charles Folsom

New York Nov. 9, 1826.

My dear Sir

I received at nearly the same moment your last letter and Prof.
Renwick's Review of Strickland's Reports. I saw with some alarm that you
had on hand a critical notice of Strickland's Reports--as the article furnished by Renwick is a very good one and contains matter which we
cannot well spare. I have sent it on however and hope that it will be
printed in some form or other. Could not the critical notice of Mr. Treadwell be incorporated into it? The work of Strickland is one of no
small importance, and is got up at an expense quite unusual in this country. It seems to me deserving of more notice than could be taken of it in
a page or two. Or if this plan will not answer could not Mr. R's article be
provided with a new title and placed in the miscellaneous department?
One of these things, I should imagine, might easily be done.
1

I send you also an article on Alexanders "Canon of the Scriptures"
by
Mr. William Ware2 and another on "Thoughts on Banking" by Mr. W. H. Coleman.
3 The latter has been examined by some of our most

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